Windows update failed and took space

Today saw 9 optional updates. My free space went from 55.4Gb to 54.5Gb. I've since run a disk clean (including system files) and followed that by a restart and defrag followed by another restart. The disk clean took some 25 minutes in all and reclaimed only a few 10's of Mb. In other words next to nothing. This is typical behaviour of Windows Update although at some future point I expect to see a sudden jump back up in the free space allocation.

That's interesting. So yours also took 0.9Gb of space when installing the updates but then you got it back following a disk clean. Mine almost always comes back some days later, as if files have been marked for deletion but not yet deleted. I find even the smallest updates exhibit this odd behaviour in that they can take masses of space.

For anyone mildly interested in all this the free space had not so far returned following the single Flash Update. Today I ran the basic disk clean (not including system files) and it was reported that around 18Mb could be freed. Yes, just 18Mb. I ran the cleanup and lo and behold, free space now back at 55.4Gb

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